CLUBS ARE TRUMPS DIAMONDS ARE HILARY’S

by Anton Wills-Eve

Well I had to get better by super Tuesday even though typing with only four fingers!

CLUBS ARE TRUMPS’ DIAMONDS ARE HILARY’S

So now we know the new President. The first women to call the oval office her own. Okay, Bernie may run alongside for a while but she’s made it. And won’t it be a wonderful pair of of firsts! She’ll be the first female President of the US and Bill will be the first First Gentleman. Yeah he’s been president, but never top man. But hang on, why am I assuming everything is done and dusted eight months before the nation votes? It’s obvious.

I have no idea why the US has such an insane method of nominating candidates, but when Donald gets past the number of delegates he needs they have to follow him through the nomination process. Surely the GOP realises that he hasn’t a hope in hell of winning a popular vote against anyone because he is ignorant, brain dead, big mouthed and unpleasant. On top of that his own party don’t like him and don’t want him. The tragedy is he hasn’t got the charisma of a Kennedy so nobody can be bothered to assassinate him.

I have been covering US elections since Stevenson and Eisenhower first had a go at each other in 1952 and this is by far the easiest campaign to wrap up so early. The unelectable will retire to his golf clubs while the only politician with any domestic and foreign policy experience will walk into the White House with diamonds round her neck. I was looking forward to a fun election year, too. Oh well at least my beloved Broncos won the super bowl. If the Pirates win the World Series it could yet be my greatest American year.

But going back to 1950 – I may only have been ten years old but was writing European reaction pieces on the merits of the candidates as UPI was rather pushed for informed comment over here in those days – I know one thing. I never thought that in my lifetime I would see first a catholic President, then a coloured one and finally a lady. The Saturday Evening post had only prepared me for Norman Rockwell’s images of life over the water!

AWE

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9 Comments to “CLUBS ARE TRUMPS DIAMONDS ARE HILARY’S”

I so hope you are right. Not that I am in love with Hilary, but let’s say she is the best choice of the available and I am probably a democrat in any case. I like the way you have worded your title. I trust your words of wisdom and can now sleep knowing that Amerca will not be in the hands of a finance mogul who is a potential threat to civilisation.

Of course you are wise, it takes one to know one. Do you mean a literal shot or a hypothetical one. By the way we had election Sunday in Switzerland last week-end and we were congratulated on our direct democracy system by another country, although Mr. Swiss has to explain to me what we are voting about.

He is not the nominee yet (one has still hope). I don’t trust Clinton and wouldn’t want to vote for here, but there is just no way that I would ever vote for Trump or one of the other two clowns. I made that very clear on my blog when I started writing about it months ago -when everybody still thought it would all just go away.
Good post.

So glad to see you are still with us.
Hilary Clinton? I wonder how that will pan out. I wish my mother could be here to see it. When I got the news that Obama was President I pulled out my mobile and dialed her number. I was so excited about our prospective conversation that I forgot she’d been dead for six years.

Jane, I often tried to ring my parents with key news for years after they died within a few months of each other (sept 72/july73) both far too young. But now I try to beat my sister to breaking stories, we’re about level. btw Mozart sounds dreadful with only a few fingers working and Liszt will be a little later than planned. Looking at next Christmas. Actually piano playing is by far the thing I’ve missed most since my 1st wife and daughter were killed. I still miss them dreadfully. Hope all is well with you. Ciao. Anton